• 1.1 John Lucy makes wooden boxes in which to ship motorcycles. John and his three...
Chuck Sox makes wooden boxes in which to ship motorcycles. Chuck and his three employees invest a total of 20 hours per day making the 120 boxes. a) Their productivity = ?? boxes/hour (round your response to two decimal places). Chuck and his employees have discussed redesigning the process to improve efficiency. Suppose they can increase the rate to 220 boxes per day. b) Their new productivity = ???? boxes/hour (round your response to two decimal places). c) The unit...
Can someone please answer this. Chuck Sox makes wooden boxes in which to ship motorcycles. Chuck and his three employees invest a total of 40 hours per day making the 400 boxes. a) Their productivity boxes/hour (round your response to two decimal places). Chuck and his employees have discussed redesigning the process to improve efficiency. Suppose they can increase the rate to 600 boxes per day. b) Their new productivity boxes/hour (round your response to two decimal places). c) The...
1.5 George Kyparisis makes bowling balls in his Miami plant. With recent increases in his costs, he has a newfound interest inefficiency. George is interested in determining the productivity of his organization. He would like to know if his organization is maintaining the manufacturing average of 3% increase in productivity per year. He has the following data representing a month from last year and an equivalent month this year: Show the productivity percentage change for each category and then determine the improvement...
Problem 1.7 Question Help George Kyparisis makes bowling balls in his Miami plant. With recent increases in his costs, he has a newfound interest in efficiency. George is interested in determining the productivity of h s organization. He would like to know if his organization is mantan g the manufacturing average a 3% ncrease ipod has the following data representing a month from last year and an equivalent month this year: ity Ho Cost Per Input Unit Units Produced Labor...
George Kyparisis makes bowling balls in his Miami plant. With recent increases in his costs, he has a newfound interest in efficiency. George is interested in determining the productivity of his organization. He has the following data representing a month from last year and an equivalent month this year: Last Year Now Units Produced 1,000 1,000 Labor (hours) 300 250 Resin (pounds) 60 46 Capital Invested ($) 10,000 12,500 Energy (BTU) 2,950 2,750 a) What is the labor productivity (bowling balls...
. 1.16 An air-conditioner factory makes three different types of air-conditioners: the ceiling type, the cassette type and the wall mounted type. Weekly sales of each type are 2, 4 and 6 pieces, at a price of €350, €450, and €500 each, respectively. The ceiling type can be assembled in 1.5 hours, the cassette type in 1 hour and the wall-mounted type in 45 minutes. Labour cost is €40 per hour and the current factory's multi factor productivity is 2.2....
1. Leonard Chang runs a barbershop in Fredericton, NB. Due to his excellent marketing skills, the sales have increased by 25% in the last quarter. The barbershop does 1200 haircuts per month. The labor productivity is about 2 haircuts per labor-hour. Each barber works 150 hours per month. How many barbers should Leonard add? The hourly pay will be $10 for barbers. Leonard is considering redesign the barbershop to increase the customer flows. The redesign entails a significant increase in...
11. Leonard Chang runs a barbershop in Fredericton, NB. Due to his excellent marketing skills, the sales have increased by 25% in the last quarter. The barbershop does 1200 haircuts per month. The labor productivity is about 2 haircuts per labor-hour. Each barber works 150 hours per month. How many barbers should Leonard add? The hourly pay will be $10 for barbers. Leonard is considering redesign the barbershop to increase the customer flows. The redesign entails a significant increase in...
The owner of a small mill-working plant that builds cabinets is developing his aggregate plan for the next year. The relevant cost data and forecast for the next 4 quarters is provided below. The company currently has 20 employees and works one 8 hour shift each day with 2 paid 15 minute breaks. Assume each quarter has 65 working days, and that it currently has no units in stock. Use this information and the information from the table to answer...
2. Wendy’s friend Bob worked for the same software company but they didn’t renew his contract. Now he’s applying for jobs, but can’t collect unemployment benefits because he wasn’t technically an employee. Bob is: Not in the labor force but "marginally attached" Unemployed Not in the labor force and not "marginally attached" 3. Jim works in construction, but his project got shut down for a week because of a snowstorm. As a result, Jim didn’t get paid. He’ll go back...